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More than half of the top ten devs were British – and that’s without recent indie hits

Frozenbyte says it was overambitious as original vision for latest entry would have trebled game's development costs to $15m

Ubisoft’s quirky platformer Grow Home will be released on PS4, and will be free to PlayStation Plus subscribers. The existence of the console version of the game was uncovered last month at the same time Sony unveiled plans to allow gamers to vote on future PS+ Instant Game Collections selections. …

Romania is a small but mighty market for games, playing host to big players in the global industry. The country continues to have just one big distributor for games, Best Distribution, which handles the importing of games for the country’s similarly small pool of High Street and online retailers. Despite …

Nintendo has announced a Super Mario Maker Wii U bundle will be made available exclusively at Walmart to coincide with the game’s launch. The package will cost $299.96 and includes a 32GB Wii U, a digital copy of Super Mario Maker, a Super Mario Maker Idea Book, and the 8-bit …

Camouflaj’s episodic stealth game Rpublique will arrive on PS4 in its entirety early next year, publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America has revealed. The first three episodes of title are currently available on iOS, Android, Windows PC and Mac platforms, with GungHo announcing earlier this year that it will publish the …

Movies based on brands such as Zelda and Mario could become a reality in the near future. Rumours of growing film aspirations within the walls of Nintendo have been gaining momentum for some time, and now development boss Shigeru Miyamoto has said that Nintendo movies could very much feature in …

Studio GM quits a year after acquisition of Pitbull

There’s a game called Professional Lumberjack 2016. And it’s going to be released on next-gen consoles. Bandai Namco has announced that Professional Lumberjack 2016 will be released on PS4, Xbox One, PC, PS3 and Wii U – yes, Wii U – on November 30th. Its chum Professional Farmer 2016 will …

It’s a classic psychological mainstay – reward good behaviour and ignore bad behaviour. It’s not unknown for particularly distasteful online behaviour to result in players being banned or shunted onto a naughty step server. Riot, however, is trying a different tact. Rewards that are being handed out to most League …